hey guys,

has anyone heard of this make or used one to tell me wether its worth buying or not?

I understand these are the early mechanical reverse boxes used by BECers (IIRC westfield) alot seem to be on the market as most people have gone electric or done without.

If you get one you will need a twin prop setup which will then need to be replaced if you change your mind.

Mechanical reverses seem to be black magic as some praise them and have done loads of miles whiles other have hadbad vibrations and continual failures.

My advice would be do without or go electric.

Cheers

Jim

may i echo the above.........(yes)

why thank you

Greeting All in the bonds of peace,

I'm attempting fix a Eurotech FR2000 reverse box in the States. I found out through previous posts on this site and my own testing that the reverser box vibrates heavily as the RPMs rise on the prop shaft. So I opened the box to find that the bushing on the outshaft has a lot of "play" and seem to be one of problems with the design of this 1st generate reverser box.

As I recall (correct if i'm wrong), Pete Osborne with Eurotech was the subject matter expert with the FR2000? Also, I have read that other BEC enthusaists have done some welding to correct the virbration issue? I'm not ready to throw in the towel with the FR2000 yet unitl I explore other reasonable solutions, God knows I can't afford to purchase Quaife reverse box at this time.

Does anyone have any insight or success stories for fixing the vibration issue with the EuroTech FR2000?

I will post some pictures of the bad bushing and the output shaft. the ouput shaft is harden steel, the bushing seem to be some sort of alloy steel - definitely not harden.